Cider September CTP Release Notes

Welcome to the September Community Technology Preview of Cider, the Visual Designer for the Windows Presentation Foundation. This release is an incremental improvement over the August CTP The focus for this CTP is to release an updated toolset that is fully compatible with the new .Net Framework 3.0 September CTP Release.

As in previous ""CTPs"", this release of Cider supports basic "form" creation and "XAML Preview". There are no new features in this CTP. All functionality is the same as our August release.

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Let us know what you like and what you don't like. What are the things that are missing today that stop you from using Cider? What are your "must have" features? Stop by and give us feedback on the MSDN forum for Cider

What's New in the September CTP

* Compatible with the ".Net Framework 3.0 September CTP" Release. The September CTP is a refresh of our August CTP bits updated to be compatible with the new .Net Framework 3.0 September CTP. All other features in the September CTP are identical to what we shipped in the August CTP. Please review the August CTP Release Notes for more details on the features present in that CTP release.

Uninstalling the August CTP

Before you install the September CTP please make sure you uninstall the August CTP or any previous Cider ""CTPs"".

Installing the September CTP

The Cider September CTP requires the September CTP releases of other components. And, of course, you'll need Visual Studio 2005
* .Net Framework 3.0 September CTP
* Visual Studio Code Name 'Orcas' for .Net Framework 3.0 Sept CTP (which includes Cider)

Uninstalling the September CTP

Well, if you're "done" with Cider, or you've found a bug that is blocking your work, you have several options.

If you just don't want the designer to come up when you double-click a XAML file, you can right-click on the XAML file in the Solution Explorer, select "Open With…", then select the XML Editor and check the "Set as default" option. This will cause the XAML file to always open in the XML editor.

If there's some huge problem that you cannot work around and you cannot change the XAML file association, you can uninstall the entire Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" CTP. Go to "Add/Remove Programs" and uninstall something that looks like the "Visual Studio Code Name 'Orcas' Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for "".Net Framework 3.0""."

Both of these options will leave intact the original functionality of Visual Studio 2005.